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If the inside was painted white then it was probably a liveaboard cruising in London. Jen, ?

The french do have automatic locks. if it all goes wrong and your boat sinks a little icon comes up of a french person shrugging his shoulders.

Not going to wholly disagree but feel there should be some defence. Tried a few when in dry dock there a couple of years ago and they are what they are. Social centres in an economically depressed northern town, along with their characters and chicanery. I went in The Star more than the others and remember a group of OAPs on the lash from Eccles using their tram passes for a good booze up. Apparently a regular thing as they were all well known in there. Cheap beer, no hassles, couldn't argue. As for The New Crown in Newton Heath, again the same. Let's face it, none of the pubs near the Rochdale approaching Manchester or the Ashton out are going to be an idyllic tourist destination but I wouldn't be wary of having a pint in one.

I like the idea of a paint roller handle as a puller - why not take it one step further. Look out for a radiator roller handle. It takes a narrower roller but the shaft is about 3 or 4 times longer than a standard roller so will give you a greater reach.

Well while you have all been talking about the dreaded dentist i have been busy ( jaw and gum still sore after weeks though ) Hope you are better now and no trouble Hi all, hope you all enjoying your boating, me, well still faffing about here I was a little peeed off a few week back as i tried a new supplier for some pattern material and fittings which took six days to get here and still waitng for a few parts to arrive after paying over the norm for delivery. I will not be using Snuggtopz again as they are complete useless and unprofessional.So in the mean time i have got on with the internal vanishing and lining out. I used a hi temp spray adhesive as we dont want it falling off or coming loose on the real hot summer we get a lot of in the UK......a little sarcy there lol.I did mess up a little on the varnishing as the front panel where the sockets are i ended up with a few runs. I used a foam roller and flatted out with foam brush. I think i was just rushing, No big deal a quick sand otu of the runs and another quick coat will do the job. All the rest is good Looking better now. All was varnished with Len Tonkinois. Solid wood three coats and veneered was two coats. image: https://i.postimg.cc/qM4qTC1T/20190309-152058.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/gksJkk76/20190309-152055.jpg Used this adhesive image: https://i.postimg.cc/7hYLSFGL/20190310-145538.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/vTqZh0ft/20190310-145517.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/7ZTZ1M6S/20190310-172441.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/0N0xZtqK/20190310-172517.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/xCjQZK0x/20190310-172545.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/NjTQ2sJ4/20190310-172956.jpg Next up is to finish the hatch surround and then i can line the front panel and under the front deck. Still more to varnish on the cupboard door frame sas they are solid Sapele so need three coats at least. I just want a good few days to crack on with this canopy. I got Fibretex pattern material as the sheet i was using was either to tin and stretched or to thick. Captain Faffer :):)

My vote goes to The Black Country Living Museum, chips cooked in beef dripping. Hmmmmm

There's Debdale marina as well once through Foxton.

You will get anti-freeze in the chandelry at Sileby Mill. They are also good for diesel - even in winter they have a high turnover. Say hello to our boat when you stop!!

If you go to a marina You might get it at crick never been in that hole in the ground, or even north kilworth. I had assumed you would need a motor factor! Unfortunatly tony matts at foxton was displaced by that new pub.

The Trent at Derwent Mouth will currently be about 400mm into the red. My experience is that the bottom of the red is at about 1.30m and Gauge Map shows it at 1.78m https://www.gaugemap.co.uk/#!Map/Summary/121/123 The Soar at Pillings lock is definitely in flood at 1.15m The flow is also high but falling. https://www.gaugemap.co.uk/#!Map/Summary/166/180 We boat regularly on the Soar and Trent - I would be staying put with levels as they are. If in Loughborough do not leave heading north as Zouch flood gates will be shut. If at Barrow on Soar heading north do not leave as getting lined up for the road bridge below the lock is difficult when there is a heavy flow on the river. Remember that at Barrow above the lock that you are still on the river and moor accordingly. A boat sank there last winter because of tight mooring lines.

That was one of the few times in my life I have considered vandalism as a solution, the last two times I've been through it hasn't been working.

Boat goes faster on the muddy ditch....

I believe Grebe & Moorhen were their first two hire boats when they moved to Pitstone Wharf. Rod Saunders was the owner and had been operating trip boats from the towpath locally until the wharf site was ready. I recall that he also had some form of business relationship with Autrant Cruises (?) based at Slapton

When I lived on the Wirral and worked in Liverpool , Specsavers managed to put the prism in upside down. I was never sure which of my two cars I should drive into which of the four tunnel entrances.

Poor argument though, just because everyone, including myself, does that bad thing I might as well do this different bad thing, just because I can.

Worth more than bote.

Nope, won't get a room with him, last time he didn't pay his half. And he brought a lass back and made a lot of noise. Yorkshire git!

I've got them! When I mentioned them before someone posted a photo of someones. I made mine out of 6mm bar in about 10 minutes each (and I'm no welder). Were I making them again I would use 8mm. No bending, no wet knees. I've never seen them available commercially

Ohhhh nooooo. Just about my fave pub. Why oh why ruin a good pub with a poxty tv, sure way to kill it stone dead. A few sensible drinkers watching the six nations very occasionaly doesnt ever warrant a tv. I went into a fab country pub in a massive tourist place that I used to run 25 years ago and found they had put a telly in it. It wasnt switched on but that pub is never ever going to be a tv pub, it just shows the management cannot diferentiate pub types and just banged a tv in for good ( or bad ) measure.

You must be pleased with the results. It is looking top notch. ETA: No pain from the tooth anymore and the hole in the gum has all but healed over. Fingers crossed yours heals soon. Have you got dry socket for it still to be hurting after so long?

Or if they do, they're ever so sorry about it.

View Street Fish N Chips, Collie, Westernn Australia. Red Emperor & chips, bit of a trek for most of you but well worth it!????

Sounds far too painful! Hope you're soon mended. My husband always carries a paint roller handle, it makes a great hook, and it saves a lot of pressure to his knees. Sorry can't help you with a pin, except perhaps using a couple of these, they are 1.3 metres, perhaps pushed through the armco and down into the mud below?

Grandma Pollards in Walsden, on the Rochdale Canal, does Fish and Chips in Lard.

Hmm, I've warmed up food on the exhaust manifold of my old Allegro (See, it was good for something) but I'm not warming stuff up on MY manifold. So there.

Wrenbury

Fire and theft? Waste of money - who's going to steal your boat if it's on fire?

The primary "law" is that everbody should behave in a sensible way, observing the needs of others. The primary enforcement of that law is the conscience of each of us and peer pressure. The legal law is secondary and is there to advise what is sensible behaviour. The police and judiciary are there to encourage adherence to the primary law with the guidance of the legal law, but they cannot hope to enforce that behaviour without the support of the conscience of each of us and peer pressure. The entire system depends on most of us behaving sensibly without coercion. (Otherwise you would need a police state.) Thus the "spirit of the law" does exist and is fundamental. The legal law is couched in English which is very imprecise in what is meant for any particular set of words, and is additionally built by a poor quality system whose principle good feature is that it is allegedly democratic rather than precise. The legislation relating to canals appears to be particularly imprecise and incomplete, so the question is, do we observe the legal law which is very imperfect or the spirit of the law which is not defined? The traditional British way is to observe the imperfect legal way until the exploitation of the loopholes has caused major and inevitable problems which can't be corrected because of the massive investment in the mess. Those of us with an immediate survival problem will be happy with this but those of us free to consider the long term will not as it means that we are no more capable of managing our affairs sensibly than stone-age societies.

That's an interesting point. However I am not sure it is directly relevant here because the question wasn't whether the OP should move into a boat or not. It implied he had already done that or at least had already made that decision. There is only one absolute requirement on any boater and that it is to comply with the law. I note three early constructive responses to this thread from people I know to be active, long standing boaters and genuine advocates of the canals. Between them they also cover off most of the stereotypes we assign to various groups on here and outside of canals may have little in common. So forget about keeping CRT happy, let's put the OP in the pub with those three folk and see if he can convince them he can objectively read and apply the law regarding mooring and movement to their satisfaction. That would be a far better test. I guarantee if he can do that they won't give a stuff about what he does outside of that requirement. It really doesn't matter if you are retired and have a highly polished non-traditionally signwritten £100k boat on a marina mooring that only comes out on sunny bank holidays, or if you have a £20k Springer in grey undercoat tied to the bank in the middle of nowhere and have a job to go to. Neither has much basis in history but both are part of the fabric of today's canals. JP